[jbosstools-dev] Literate Build (was Re: Building the server component)

[Mickael Istria]

Literate Builds seem quite interesting, unfortunately, I'm not sure it 
would be easy/helpful to apply to our use-case.
The default and documented way to build something is just "mvn clean 
verify", but our jobs do more to reduce the feedback loop and speed up 
the overall build flow (Configuraiton of Xvnc, metaciy; "mvn clean 
install", then publish, then "mvn clean verify" on tests). The fact is 
that our CI jobs are currently not only focusing on the code it's 
building, but also on how to make it interacting with other jobs. That 
makes it hard to use literate build for our jobs as the way jobs are 
configured is not something very relevent in the project repository.
However, if it comes to simple "validate PR" jobs where the only build 
step is "mvn clean verify", then I think the Literate plugin can be 
used. However, is there a big benefit in configuring literate plugin in 
job compared to just typing "mvn clean verify" in job? I'm not sure... 
And even if we go for using the Literate plugin, we end up with 20 more 
new jobs to maintain.

There is no difficulty in configuring 1 job, the difficulty is in 
configuring 20 ones. The appropriate solution to factorize configuration 
seems to be the Folder plugin: 
http://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-enterprise-by-cloudbees-features-folders-plugin.cb 
. Maybe you should ask for a demo while you're around CloudBees guys at 
JavaOne.
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Mickael Istria
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